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Apple, DoJ Trial Begins Today
The Department of Justice trial against Apple charging that the company was the “ringleader” in a conspiracy to fix e-book prices begins today in New York.
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Donnelley to Handle Harlequin's e-Book Services
R. R. Donnelley & Sons has struck an agreement with Harlequin to provide e-book services for the publisher.
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Firebrand to Do E-Distribution for S&S
The publishing services company Firebrand Technologies will now be handling digital content distribution and metadata services for Simon & Schuster.
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Plympton Gives Classic Lit a Facelift Through New Promotion
Plympton, the new literary startup that publishes fiction digitally in serialized form, has started a project called Recovering the Classics that crowdsources new covers for public domain literature.
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Kobo Reports 98% Growth in First Quarter Revenue
Kobo reports 98% growth in first quarter revenue across its device and content sales.
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PDP Launches E-book Bundling Retail Network
eBookBundles.com is the parent site of a new network of e-book retail storefronts focused on genres—including retail sites for sci-fi, romance and fantasy--that offers bundles of titles by a variety of authors at an economical price.
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PubMatch Teams With BookWorks, Launches New Site
PubMatch, the global rights organization that Publishers Weekly co-owns with Combined Book Exhibit (CBE), has forged a partnership with the self-publishing association BookWorks to launch a new BookWorks Web site.
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HMH Starts E-book Recipes Series
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has released of The 20 Best e-book series which will feature 20 original e-books, each containing 20 recipes from its Betty Crocker cookbooks.
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At Hearing, Judge Says She is Leaning Against Apple
At a hearing yesterday in Manhattan, Judge Denise Cote said her “tentative view,” was that the government will be able to prove Apple’s guilt in coordinating a conspiracy to raise e-book prices.
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Penguin Finally Settles Price-Fixing Charges, Will Avoid Trial
Penguin officials, along with Attorneys General for 33 states and the consumer class, announced this morning that they have finally settled their outstanding e-book price-fixing charges—for a hefty $75 million.
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New ALA Supplement Looks at 'Faustian Bargains' of Digital
Contributors include Publishers Weekly contributing editor Peter Brantley, director of scholarly communication at Hypothes.is, whose piece, “The Unpackaged Book,” examines ways in which the “fundamental model of libraries, publishers, distributors, and books will need further re-engineering.”
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Amazon Fights to Keep Secrets in E-book Trial
Amazon attorneys filed a letter with the court asking that it be allowed to redact sensitive business information about its Kindle e-book program gathered as evidence for the upcoming Apple price-fixing trial.
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Sourcebooks Partners with Discovery Communications on HowStuffWorks
Sourcebooks is partnering with Discovery Communications media company to create and publish a fully enhanced and interactive nonfiction e-book series based on Discovery's HowStuffWorks television series and associated Web site.
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Script Lit Turns Unused Screenplays Into e-Novellas
Looking to transform Hollywood’s pile of unproduced scripts into publishable e-books, James West, a motion-picture industry entrepreneur, has launched Script Lit.
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'The Nation' Launches eBookNation
The Nation has announced the launch of eBookNation, a new digital book initiative designed to feature both original works by Nation writers, and collections of essays and articles from the Nation Digital Archive.
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Penguin Attorneys Recycle Failed Arbitration Bid
In a 2012 ruling, Judge Denise Cote forcefully shot down Penguin’s arguments for compelling arbitration in the price-fixing case. So, why re-file the motion to compel arbitration? To preserve the issue for appeal—yet another tantalizing hint that Penguin is not settling, and is prepared to go to trial.
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Pre-Trial Filings Set the Stage for the Apple-DoJ Showdown
In its joint filing with the states, the DoJ called the long-running e-book price-fixing battle “an unremarkable and obvious price-fixing case,” and alleges that under the law Apple’s conduct made it the “ringmaster” of the conspiracy.
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Najafi Makes Investment in MeeGenius
Najafi Companies has invested in MeeGenius, the digital platform for selling children's books. Although the amount of the investment wasn’t disclosed, Najafi said it is now "a significant strategic shareholder of MeeGenius."
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AARP and RosettaBooks Partner for E-book Line
RosettaBooks has announced that it has been named publisher for AARP’s original e-books. The first titles are expected to be released this year. RosettaBooks will also assist AARP with various distribution arrangements and as an adviser on print-on-demand and related projects.
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Signs Point to June 3 Start for DoJ Price-Fixing Trial
It looks like Department of Justice's e-book price-fixing case against Apple will be headed to court as scheduled on June 3.
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